Wealth Management

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-6:9

Jonathan Edwards:
The unseen, unthought-of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable… God has so many different unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell, that there is nothing to make it appear, that God had need to be at the expense of a miracle, or go out of the ordinary course of his providence, to destroy any wicked man, at any moment. All the means that there are of sinners going out of the world are so in God's hands, and so universally and absolutely subject to his power and determination, that it does not depend at all the less on the mere will of God, whether sinners shall at any moment go to hell, than if means were never made use of, or at all concerned in the case.

Sermon Points:
1. Pursuing Wealth will not Satisfy 5:9-12, 6:7-9
2. The Inability to Enjoy Life is Evil 5:13-17, 6:1-6

Luke 12:15… Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions…

Matthew 6:24… No one can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Matthew 10: 23, 25... “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God… 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Mark 8:36… 36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Isaiah 5:8-9…

8 Woe to those who join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.
9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

Proverbs 23:4-5…

4 Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
5 When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
for suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.

3. Be Content with God’s Daily Gifts 5:18-20